starsaber25 Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 The 501st Legion's Empire City Garrison attended Eternal Con at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale Long Island on Saturday July 1st and Sunday July 2nd 2017 from 10 am to 4 pm each day. Eternal Con has become Long Island's premier Pop Culture expo featuring over 200 vendors, artists, and various celebrities signing autographs. Every year the convention has gotten bigger and bigger and the ECG has been invited back every year since the very first one. This year they chose a much larger location for the convention due to its popularity and it certainly did not disappoint. This is always a great event for the garrison and this year was no different. The ECG had a fan table set up along with our Death Star backdrop for photo ops. There were about a dozen attendees each day from the garrison. ECG members roamed the con and took photos with attendees. We also promoted the legion and answered questions from potential new recruits who visited our table. The ECG ran a donation drive and raised $100 for the John Theissen Children Foundation. This was also TK-91452 Joe Mantello's first troop, so a big congratulations to Joe! Saturday attendance: Russell Augello – set up John Trowbridge – TIE Pilot Alberto Oscarelli – Kylo Ren Shane Methal - AT-AT commander Allan Liefke – Shadow Stormtrooper Joey Leung – Line Officer Jared Vasquez – Snow Trooper Joe Mantello - Stormtrooper Michael Guzman – Stormtrooper Mike Deguzman - Stormtrooper Sunday attendance: John Trowbridge – TIE pilot/Jawa Alaric Hahn – Kylo Ren Shane Methal- Navy Trooper Ron Lares – Darth Vader Dave Braun - Sandtrooper Christoph Black – Imperial Gunner Bobby Martin – Darth Nihlus Anthony Paladino- Jawa/Navy Trooper/Royal guard Veronica Venturi - Stormtrooper Joe Mantello – Stormtrooper Trooping hours Sunday - 56 Saturday - 57 Signing Off - Steve Sheades (starsaber25) Empire City Garrison PR Officer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airborne Trooper Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Hello from your neighbor to the north! Looking good! Wow, you guys have a ROTJ TK. Looks like you guys had a blast. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starsaber25 Posted July 10, 2017 Author Share Posted July 10, 2017 3 hours ago, Airborne Trooper said: Hello from your neighbor to the north! Looking good! Wow, you guys have a ROTJ TK. Looks like you guys had a blast. Ha Exactly! That was his first troop! There just isn't too many of those around Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthStevius Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Wow! Full on troop report! lots of pics too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 looks like a whole lot of fun, great pics and a great variety of characters..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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